Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The American news media today is fixated on “Li’l Kim”Jong-un of North Korea conducting another nuclear test, N. Korea nuclear test raises tensions. “Tuesday’s test was conducted in the face of strong opposition from the United States and its allies. It also drew sharp condemnation from China, North Korea’s strongest patron.” China is pissed.
But you know what story the American news media has largely ignored, with the exception of foreign news coverage on PBS and a handful of print media? China is also pissed at Japan over competing claims to islands in the East China Sea. And this one could easily turn into a shooting war for control of deep-water oil and gas fields.
Reuters reports China, Japan engage in new invective over disputed isles:
China and Japan engaged on Friday in a fresh round of invective over military movements near a disputed group of uninhabited islands, fuelling tension that for months has bedeviled relations between the Asian powers.
An increasingly muscular China has been repeatedly at odds with others in the region over rival claims to small clusters of islands, most recently with fellow economic giant Japan which accused a Chinese navy vessel of locking radar normally used to aim weapons on a Japanese naval ship in the East China Sea.
